Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #18 in Moscow, Russia

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Number of sights 23 sights
Distance 11.1 km
Ascend 150 m
Descend 152 m

Experience Moscow in Russia in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Individual Sights in Moscow

Sight 1: Государственный центр современного искусства

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The National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA) in Moscow, Russia, is a museum, exhibition and research organization which primarily aims its efforts at the development of Contemporary Russian Art within the context of the global art process.

Wikipedia: National Centre for Contemporary Arts (EN), Website

466 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 2: Церковь Софии и Татьяны

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The Church of the Holy Martyrs Sophia and Tatiana at the Filatov Children's Clinical Hospital No 13 is an Orthodox church in the Presnensky district of Moscow. It belongs to the Central Deanery of the Moscow Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Wikipedia: Храм Святых Мучениц Софии и Татианы (RU)

551 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 3: MOST

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MOST Театр Мост / CC BY-SA 3.0

The MOST Theater is a state budgetary institution of culture in the city of Moscow. It was created on the basis of the Student Theater of Moscow State University in 1999 by a decree of the Moscow Government at the request of the All-Russian Theater Society, in fact, it began to work in June 2000.

Wikipedia: МОСТ (театр) (RU), Website

218 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: Bulgakov Museum

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The Bulgakov Museum in Moscow is a writer's house museum which commemorates the life and work of author Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov in an apartment where he lived in Moscow, Russia, and in which he set portions of his novel The Master and Margarita. Graffiti, including text from the novel and drawings of its characters, have decorated the external walls and stairwells of the apartment building since the beginning of perestroika. It is located about two blocks from Patriarch Ponds, the scene of the opening chapter of the novel, where the Moscow city government had planned to erect statues commemorating the novel. It is close to Mayakovskaya metro station

Wikipedia: Bulgakov Museum in Moscow (EN), Website

459 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 5: И. А. Крылову

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И. А. КрыловуТара-Амингу / Добросовестное использование

The monument to Ivan Andreevich Krylov in Moscow was erected near the Patriarch's Ponds in Yermolaevsky Lane.

Wikipedia: Памятник И. А. Крылову (Москва) (RU)

332 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 6: Praktika

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Praktika is a Moscow theater created as an experimental center for new drama in 2005 on the initiative of director Eduard Boyakov.

Wikipedia: Практика (театр) (RU), Website

211 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 7: Особняк Шехтеля

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Schechtel's mansion in Yermolaevsky Lane is a building erected at the intersection of Trekhprudny and Yermolaevsky lanes by Fyodor Schechtel in 1896 for his family. Architect Vladimir Adamovich also took part in the construction. Since 1944, the house has been under the jurisdiction of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs, since the 50s the estate has served as the residence of the ambassadors of Uruguay.

Wikipedia: Особняк Шехтеля в Ермолаевском переулке (RU)

586 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 8: Moscow Youth Theater

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The MTYuZ Theater is a theater in the Tverskoy district of Moscow. Founded in 1920 as the First State Theater for Children, in 1941 it was merged with another Moscow Youth Theater. In 1970 he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, and in 80 he received the Lenin Komsomol Prize.

Wikipedia: Московский театр юного зрителя (RU), Website

459 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 9: Alexander Pushkin

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Alexander Pushkin

The monument to Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, the work of Alexander Mikhailovich Opekushin, was erected in Moscow on June 6 (18), 1880. The monument is made of bronze, originally it was installed at the beginning of Tverskoy Boulevard on Strastnaya Square. In 1950, the monument was moved to the opposite side of the square.

Wikipedia: Памятник А. С. Пушкину (Москва, Пушкинская площадь) (RU)

578 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 10: Храм Успения Пресвятой Богородицы в Путинках

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The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Putinki is an Orthodox church in the Tverskoy district of Moscow. He belongs to the Iveron Deanery of the Moscow Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Wikipedia: Храм Успения Пресвятой Богородицы в Путинках (RU), Website

223 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 11: Детский музыкальный театр юного актера

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The Children's Musical Theater of the Young Actor (DMTYUA) is a Russian state theater founded in 1988 by the Honored Artist of Russia Alexander Fedorov.

Wikipedia: Детский музыкальный театр юного актёра (RU), Website

116 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 12: Lenkom

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Lenkom Theatre, formerly known as Lenin’s Komsomol Moscow Theatre or Moscow Leninist Komsomol Theatre is the official name of what was once known as the Moscow State Theatre named after Komsomol, a Communist youth league set up by Vladimir Lenin.

Wikipedia: Lenkom Theatre (EN), Website

272 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 13: Московский театр мюзикла

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Московский театр мюзиклаSergey Rodovnichenko from Moscow, Russia / CC BY-SA 2.0

The Rossiya Theatre, formerly known as the Pushkinsky Cinema is monument of architecture and currently the largest theatre in Moscow operated by Stage Entertainment. It is located in Pushkinskaya Square.

Wikipedia: Rossiya Theatre (EN), Website

255 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 14: А. Т. Твардовскому

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Monument to A. T. Tvardovsky in Moscow. It was opened on June 22, 2013 on Strastnoy Boulevard in the Tverskoy district of the city.

Wikipedia: Памятник Твардовскому (Москва) (RU)

141 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 15: С. В. Рахманинову

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The Monument to Sergei Rachmaninov was installed in 1999 in Moscow on Strastnoy Boulevard. The authors of the monument are sculptors O. K. Komov, A. N. Kovalchuk and architect Yu. P. Grigoriev. The monument has the status of a declared object of cultural heritage.

Wikipedia: Monument to Sergei Rachmaninov (EN)

141 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 16: В. С. Высоцкому

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772 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 17: Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo

Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo, sometimes nicknamed the Ocean Man, was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms.

Wikipedia: Victor Hugo (EN)

1393 meters / 17 minutes

Sight 18: Солдатам правопорядка, погибшим при исполнении служебного долга

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Солдатам правопорядка, погибшим при исполнении служебного долгаBrateevsky / Добросовестное использование

The monument to internal affairs officers, law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty was erected in 1994 in Moscow on Trubnaya Square. The authors of the monument are sculptor A. A. Bichukov and architect A. V. Klimochkin. The total height of the monument is 32.5 m. The monument belongs to the category of "urban sculpture".

Wikipedia: Памятник солдатам правопорядка, погибшим при исполнении служебного долга (RU)

389 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 19: Yuri Nikulin monument

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The monument to Yuri Nikulin in Moscow is installed on Tsvetnoy Boulevard in front of the building of the Nikulin Moscow Circus.

Wikipedia: Памятник Юрию Никулину (RU)

828 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 20: Школа драматического искусства

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Школа драматического искусства Школа драматического искусства / Добросовестное использование

The School of Dramatic Art Theater is a Moscow drama theater founded in 1987 by director Anatoly Vasiliev. The School is based on the principles of play theatre and the concept of a theatre-laboratory focused on research, research and stage experiments. The theater includes several "laboratories" that develop new productions.

Wikipedia: Школа драматического искусства (RU), Website

1613 meters / 19 minutes

Sight 21: Москонцерт Холл

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Mosconcert is the oldest cultural organization in Moscow. Its full name is "Mosconcert, state budgetary institution of culture of Moscow"

Wikipedia: Mosconcert (EN)

403 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 22: Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya

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The Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya is one of Moscow's Seven Sisters, skyscrapers built in the early 1950s in the Stalinist neoclassical style. Stalinist neoclassical architecture mixes the Russian neoclassical style with the style of American skyscrapers of the 1930s. A main element of Stalinist neoclassicism is its use of socialist realism art. The hotel, completed in 1954, was designed to be the finest luxury hotel in Moscow.

Wikipedia: Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya (EN), Facebook, Instagram, Website

670 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 23: К. А. Тону

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К. А. Тону

Konstantin Andreyevich Thon, also spelled Ton was an official architect of Imperial Russia during the reign of Nicholas I. His major works include the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, the Grand Kremlin Palace and the Kremlin Armoury in Moscow.

Wikipedia: Konstantin Thon (EN)

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